2025-05-06 WWE NXT - REVIEW
2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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NXT / TNA Crossover in Storylines # 1 & 3…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Ava has enough of Trick Williams & Joe Hendry’s cross promotional war… books match to settle it, and it’s for the TNA world title!…
Participants:
Peripheral Participants:
[whoever was in the battle royal when Joe Hendry entered to interfere… See Storyline #3…]
👉Subplots:
(A) Dark State feud w/ Joe Hendry & NXT wrestlers…
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(B) Joe Hendry / Trick Williams feud… both guys cost each other tonight & Ava books TNA world title match to settle it...
Details:
Enter Trick Williams…
BLATANT Physical Interference from Trick Williams who gets into a fight w/ Joe Hendry…
Joe Hendry & Trick Williams fight off…
Winners: Dark State…
-Later, during the NXT title #1 contender’s Battle Royal (See Storyline #3…), Joe Hendry enters and the distraction leads to Trick Williams getting eliminated by Joe Hendry’s TNA compatriot, Elijah…
-Later, in Ava’s office, Ava wants the cross promotional feud to end, and , in conjunction w/ Santino, books Joe Hendry vs Trick Williams for the TNA world title at Battleground…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
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➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark:
(A) Dark State was kind of in the background today… they could have made themselves a nuisance in the battle royal but i guess they wanted to give the spotlight to Miles Borne, and i agree w/ that decision…
(B) No DQ in the 6 Man?? Trick Williams pretty much fought off w/ Hendry right in front of the ref… other than that, i’ve said it before but i think Trick Williams should take this and start an angle for Joe Hendry to have to win the TNA’s world title back for the company…
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(2) Thea Hail won’t stand back and watch Karmen Petrovic get beat down by an unhinged Jaida Parker…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Karmen Petrovic & Thea Hail…
Enter Jaida Parker…
-Match: Karmen Petrovic vs Jaida Parker…
Winner: Jaida Parker…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Jaida Parker continues attack on Karmen Petrovic…
Enter Thea Hail to make the save… Jaida Parker is pissed Hail for not “minding her own business” as she backs off…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
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➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: great booking. toni khan style high profile booking 😄. but i felt that the preceding backstage angle and the postmatch angle actually gave this some teeth…
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(3) NXT title #1 contender’s battle royal…
Participants: (this is for the whole overarching storyline for the day, not the battle royal alone)
👉Subplots:
(A) No Quarter Catch Crew try to "unite" before battle Royal…
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(B) Wes Lee & crew feud w/ Zachary Wentz…
(C) Ashonte Thee Adonis strategy backfires…
(D) Culling members sacrifice themselves for Shawn Spears…
(E) Je’Von Evans w/ multiple breath taking close calls…
(F) Trick Williams’ quest for NXT title & feud w/ Joe Hendry… (See Storyline #1…)
(G) EVOLVE’s Sean Legacy impresses…
(H) Miles Borne wins battle royal!…
(I) Briggs & Inamura rough night ends in break up…Culling pour salt on the wounds...
(J) Charlie Dempsey tries to take Miles Borne’s title shot but Borne ain’t havin it…
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Tony D’Angelo…
Enter Wes Lee’s Crew (Wes Lee, Tyreke Igwe, Tyson Dupont) who disrespect Tony D’Angelo… Tony is down to fight but Wes Lee backs off as he has to prepare for the upcoming battle royal…
-Pre Match, Elijah, from TNA, is a surprise entrant and sings a song on his way to the ring…
-25 Man Battle Royal:
Order of Eliminations…
❌Chris Island eliminated by Lexis King…
❌Lexis King eliminated by Shiloh Hill…
📝Charlie Dempsey tries to coordinate w/ Miles Borne to eliminate Elijah, but Borne decided to do his own thing…
❌Charlie Dempsey eliminated by Elijah…
❌Brad Baylor eliminated by Yoshiki Inamura…
📝Ashonte Thee Adonis circled the ring trying to avoid elimination until finally entering the match…
❌Ashonte Thee Adonis eliminated by Trick Williams…
❌Ricky Smokes eliminated by Zachary Wentz…
❌Tyson Dupont eliminated by Josh Briggs…
📝Inamura is unsure if Briggs was trying to kick him, and trips on Briggs…
❌Timothy Thatcher eliminated by Ethan Page…
📝Niko Vance pushes Shawn Spears away from a kick by Shiloh Hill and takes the kick himself…
❌Niko Vance eliminated by Shiloh Hill…
📝Niko Vance is seen saying something to Brooks Jensen… I would assume he tells Jensen to do whatever it takes to save Shawn Spears…
❌Shiloh Hill eliminated by Trick Williams…
❌❌Tyreke Igwe eliminated by Brooks Jensen, who also eliminates himself in the process, flying over the top rope…
❌Josh Briggs eliminated by Yoshiki Inamura!, who may have been aiming for Ridge Holland… Briggs is pissed and Inamura seems very regretful…
❌Zachary Wentz eliminated by Ethan Page…
❌Wes Lee SAVAGELY eliminated by Trick Williams…
❌❌Ridge Holland & Yoshiki Inamura eliminated by Trick Williams…
📝Enter Joe Hendry…
❌The distraction of Joe Hendry’s appearance causes Trick Williams to be eliminated by Elijah…
❌Elijah eliminated by Shawn Spears, who mocks Elijah’s guitar playing…
📝Sean Legacy has an impressive little run which shows off his athleticism…
❌Sean Legacy eliminated by Je’Von Evans…
❌Je’Von Evans eliminated by both Ethan Page & Shawn Spears working in unison…
❌❌Shawn Spears & Ethan Page both eliminated by Miles Borne, who pushes Page into Spears, causing both to be eliminated…
Winner: Miles Borne… who becomes #1 contender for NXT title…
-Post Match, No Quarter Catch Crew enter the ring to celebrate w/ Borne but only Tavion Heights & Wren Sinclair, as Charlie Dempsey stays back at ringside…
-Backstage Segment w/ Yoshiki Inamura & Josh Briggs has the two emotionally breaking up as a tag team, as Inamura will return to Japan…
Exit Yoshiki Inamura…
Enter Culling (Niko Vance, Brooks Jensen, Izzi Dame) to pour salt on Josh Briggs’ wounds…
-Backstage Segment w/ No Quarter Catch Crew (Charlie Dempsey, Miles Borne, Tavion Heights, Wren Sinclair) has Dempsey telling Miles Borne to surrender his title shot…
Enter Oba Femi… Miles Borne shoots down Dempsey’s idea of usurping Borne’s title opportunity, and floats the idea of Dempsey facing Oba Femi next week… Dempsey ends the segment pretty upset…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
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➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark:
(A) well i never saw the start of No Quarter Catch Crew, as i started in October 2024, but these guys shouldn’t be getting bossed around by Charlie Dempsey… no offense but Charlie Dempsey doesn’t look that intimidating. i’m glad they’re letting these guys break out to see if there’s anything there…
(B) always nice to see. one of my favorite feuds of recent memory. never mind seeing this brought up from time to time, in tna or nxt…
(C) this was silly. no drama w/ Karmen Petrovic… maybe they’re just moving on from that?…
(D) I mean, i get it but is it really helpful to sacrifice yourself just to eliminate one person? i feel like the better strategy would have been to stay in there and try to help Spears win 🤷♂️…. i will say Brooks Jensen’s fall out of the ring looked crazy, as stupid as it was logically…
(E) Je’Von Evans was awesome in this match. get this guy in the Royal Rumble and make him a star!…
(G) Sean Legacy is a dope ass wrestler. the moves he was pulling off w/ Je’Von Evans looked freakin sick!
(H) Miles Borne! all right, hell yeah! his work is tremendous and he looks like a million bucks physically, so i don’t see why not. they didn’t cut him so they see something in him. i think he can actually get some good support as a babyface… i’m with this…
(I) Really enjoyed their whole angle in NXT. AMAZING WORK 👏…
(J) Did this just totally emasculate Charlie Dempsey or what? is he getting cut next or something?!
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(4) Sol Ruca inadvertently helps Zaria defeat Kelani Jordan, but the story here is Zaria spearing Kelani through the barricade, and Sol Ruca’s reaction…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Kelani Jordan vs Zaria w/ Sol Ruca…
Involvement from Sol Ruca on the outside causes a distraction that leases to Zaria spearing Kelani Jordan through the barricade!… Sol Ruca looks very impressed w/ Zaria’s attack… like very impressed…
Winner: Zaria…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - ❤️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Man. idk if i can explain why i loved this. but 😬🫨🤯…
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(5) Tony D’Angelo gets into a little thing backstage w/ a disrespectful Wes Lee, although hands aren’t thrown as Wes Lee chooses to get ready for the battle royal instead… (btw, whatever Tony D’Angelo was saying on the phone, i couldn’t make out…)
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Tony D’Angelo…
Enter Wes Lee’s Crew (Wes Lee, Tyreke Igwe, Tyson Dupont) who disrespect Tony D’Angelo… Tony is down to fight but Wes Lee backs off as he has to prepare for the upcoming battle royal…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: I wish i could make out what Tony D’Angelo was saying at the beginning of the segment on the phone because i feel it could be something important for the story w/ Stacks… but they didn’t say it clearly nor accentuate or repeat it in any way so 🤷♂️. i’ll just move on… btw, i don’t care about a match between Wes Lee and Tony D’Angelo, not right now at least and not from this random backstage thing…
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(6) On a night where several new names attempt to enter the NXT title picture, Jordynne Grace defeats Giulia clean to earn the next shot at Stephanie Vaquer…
Participants:
(A) Lola Vice, Izzi Dame & Lash Legend throw their names into NXT title hunt…
(B) Jordynne Grace defeats Giulia to become #1 contender for NXT title…
Detail:
Enter Giulia, who is ready to face Stephanie Vaquer…
-Backstage Interview w/ Jordynne Grace…
Enter Izzi Dame…
Enter Lash Legend…
-Match: Giulia vs Jordynne Grace…
Winner: Jordynne Grace… who becomes #1 contender for NXT title…
-Post Match, enter Stephanie Vaquer, who faces off w/ Jordynne Grace in the middle of the ring to end the show…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
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➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark (May 21, 2025): looks like this was Giulia putting someone over on her way up to the main roster. at the time, i was a bit confused at the clean finish…
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(7) OTM gearing up for return…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has OTM (Lucien Price, Bronco Nima) cutting promo on their upcoming return and tag title aspirations…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Well they didn’t get cut. I guess that’s a good sign. but this might be their last chance. i like these guys, i like the premise of their gimmick and their friendship, but in all honesty, i didn’t miss em while they were gone. these guys gotta MAKE people miss them because there is too much competition in WWE rn… i’d be trippin for the next round of cuts if i were these two…
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(8) Wes Lee’s got some secret plan goin…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Wes Lee’s crew (Wes Lee, Tyson Dupont, Tyreke Igwe) has Wes Lee talking to someone on the phone, having pulled off a plan to bait “someone” into a match, and ends the segment triumphantly claiming “everyone has a price!”
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Not the biggest ted dibiase fan, but i assume this has something to do w/ Zachary Wentz, since they focused on that so much today. Trick Williams knocked him out of the battle royal nasty, but i don’t think he’s gonna go after Trick Williams like that…
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(9) Dixon & Connors want Andre Chase to upgrade his Chase U attire…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has Kale Dixon & Uriah Connors trying to get Andre Chase to try on some “more stylish” outfits to represent Chase U…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
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➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Still waiting for Ridge Holland to pop up and say wth?! he was in the battle royal but nothing here… i’m thinking they gotta take care of that sooner rather than later…
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